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By Peterson Prime Ever since it became apparent that he was going to occupy the oval office, Barack Obama’s opponents or critics have leveled charges against him that his predecessors never faced. Six years into his preside...

Call Howard Dean. In February, a Democratic National Committee “victory task force” released its preliminary report on what the party needs to do to stop losing elections. Over the last six years Democrats have been l...

By David Grain, Founder and Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC In the aftermath of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) historic vote on net neutrality, policymakers in Washington will continue to debate how to ...

Four million comments and tons of of deliberation later, the FCC passed new rules regulating the internet as a public utility in a 3-2 vote on Feb. 26. The fight for net neutrality, or an “open Internet” and aga...

Sen. Edwards, Sen. Cummings, Sen. Alsobrooks, Sen. Blake or Sen. Brown? With today’s announcement from Senator Barbara Mikuski (D-MD) that she will retire in 2016, there is a wide open opportunity for a Black Democrat in...

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said it all pretty clearly in January 2013. Clearly some in the Republican party were not listening. Instead, Republicans appear to be “strategizing” to make...

Read the lawsuit in full here Television producer and media mogul Byron Allen, joined with the National Association of African-American Owned Media (NAAAOM) has dropped a $20 billion suit against Comcast, Al Sharpton and Time W...

Not One Dime in November 2014. Not One Viewer in February 2015. Black buying power has always been written about and talked about. But now, it’s actually being demonstrated in living color and in front of everyone w...

Shelby Steele Gets Owned By Ta-Nehisi Coates on National TV. Few TV talking head moments are worth watching again and again and again. But here is a winner from last week’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos where a...

Drama. Yesterday during votes on whether or not to fund the Department of Homeland Security, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) went after Rep. David Scott (D-GA) — who had voted with the Republicans. That’s amusing when yo...

“I’ve had it with this self-righteous delusional wing of the party that leads us over the cliff,” tweeted Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who is a former Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. In a chat ...

When I read Leelah Alcorn’s suicide note, all I could do was sit, and shake my head, and think no one should ever have to feel like she did. Ever. At any age. At any point in one’s life. But especially not as a 17-y...

There seems to be a growing sense of exceptionalism going around Silicon Valley these days – what’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander. Large tech companies are trying to manipulate laws and regulations to get a...

Earlier this year, video went viral of a 62-year-old Black grandfather being chocked and tackled by three White men in Florida, an open carry gun state, after one of them saw a gun in his waistband and assumed he was a criminal...

The White masses can’t seem to handle it when Black celebrities don’t do specifically and exclusively what they get paid to do. Marshawn Lynch has been called a “thug” and a “jerk” for refusing to speak to the media...

On Tuesday, Chicago incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who had the endorsement of his former boss, President Obama, failed to win 50% + of the vote and will now face a runoff with Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Ga...

By: Catherine E. Pugh, Majority Leader, Maryland State Senate; President National Black Caucus of State Legislators Rudy Giuliani stands in a long line of those who think it is okay to degrade this President. Never in the hi...

The State of HBCUs. On February 4 in Washington, D.C., Hampton University President Dr. William Harvey had a message for Dr. George Cooper, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs, and the Obama Admin...

New York Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY), who represents Queens, issued the following statement on comments made by former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani last week at a GOP fundraising event. What Giuliani said can be read here. ...

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